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Les Standiford -- Desperate Sons -- Gables

Start: Nov 30 2012 8:00 pm

A groundbreaking narrative--a historical
political thriller--that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the
American Revolution. More than two hundred years ago, a group of British
colonists in America decided that the conditions under which they were governed
had become intolerable. Angry and frustrated that King George III and the
British Parliament had ignored their lawful complaints and petitions, they
decided to take action. Knowing that their deeds--often directed at individuals
and property--were illegal, and punishable by imprisonment and even death,
these agitators plotted and conducted their missions in secret to protect their
identities as well as the identities of those who supported them. Calling
themselves the Sons of Liberty, they gathered together in a radical society
committed to imposing forcible change. Those determined men--including second
cousins Samuel and John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, and John
Hancock--saw themselves as patriots. Yet to the Crown, and to many of the Sons'
fellow colonists, the revolutionaries were terrorists who deserved death for
their treason.

In Desperate Sons (Harper, $27.99), a gripping narrative, Les Standiford reveals how this group
of intelligent, committed men, motivated by economics and political belief,
began a careful campaign of interlocking events that would channel feelings of
vague injustice into an armed rebellion of common cause, which would defeat an
empire and give birth to a radical political experiment--a new nation known as the
United States. 8pm